Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Russian jet-lag

Russia can give you quite
a jet-lag! Seriously! The time zones change before you even notice
and suddenly 2 hours of your precious time are gone again! That is
exactly what happened to us on the way to Ufa. We were already 2
hours ahead but suddenly we had to add another 2 to it. But not only
the time zone change. It's also the views and the nature. One day
everything is flat, the other day the road goes up and down the whole
time. But the most important thing that changed are the people.
Russian people were very friendly to us since our first day in this
country. We always got some help when we needed it and so far never
really experienced any hostility. But in the European part of the
country people rather ignored us. They went about their business and
simply left us alone until we made a move. But even then they stayed
pretty reserved. And that was also fine with us. We simply went along
with it. That is why we got a bit surprised in Ural region when
people suddenly started waving to us, screaming some different
things. At the beginning I actually though that maybe something is
wrong with out car. Maybe they are all trying to tell us something. I
just couldn't cope with this sudden attention. But nothing was wrong.
They just wanted to know where we are from, how we like Russia, where
are we going or they simply wanted to tell us Welcome to Russia.

And they really were
interested in our story, even if they all though the idea of spending
a honeymoon in Russia a total craziness. It sometimes seems to us
that Russian people don't have the highest opinion about their
country. When they ask us how we like it here, they always add things
like “Russia is very poor isn't it” or “the roads are very bad,
don't you think”. And if we say we really like it here they are
either very happy or look at us as if we were only trying to be nice.
Well we do like it here. And we enjoy the people being so open with
us. It makes the ride even more enjoyable.

3 comments:

Hejka! You are moving so fast! It's hardly to follow you:P But seriously I'm very happy that you find time to keep us all up-dated and I think you can realy get used to that;) And who knows, maybe you will write a book after coming back:DGreat that you find so many nice and helpful people on your way! hope that Karossi won't make any problems more;)Bone voyage! ( czy jak to tam sie pisze..)